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As a physicist I still find it fascinating that you can study some of the smallest things in the universe and learn something about some of the largest things i
by ThePhysicist 5y ago
As a physicist I still find it fascinating that you can study some of the smallest things in the universe and learn something about some of the largest things in it.
- mabbo 5y agoThere's a plot point in one of my favourite books, 'The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' [0], that one of the main characters is working on the ultimate physics experiment. In it, a single atom will be probed with a "quantum mirror", and from that all of the rest of physics can be deduced. A bit silly, but it's the same idea here. From studying something very small and close by in exquisite detail, we learn something fundamental about things everywhere else in the universe. We can deduce incredible things from a few electrons bouncing off an atom in a funny way. [0] Claire North's best novel so far, imho, and I cannot believe it didn't win more awards.